Countries by maize (corn) yield

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines had the highest maize (corn) yield of 162 countries in 2018, at 27.84 tonnes per hectare. Cape Verde had the lowest, at 0.02 tonnes per hectare. The median was 3.66 tonnes per hectare and the figure for the World was 5.7 tonnes per hectare. Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

Highest27.84Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

Lowest0.02Cape Verde

Median3.66162 countries

World5.7History

Map of countries, 2018

Under 1.4
1.4 to 2.2
2.2 to 3.8
3.8 to 5.7
5.7 to 8
8 and over
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tonnes per hectare, 2018. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Maize (corn), yield, kg/ha (item 56, element 5412). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain).

Top 40 countries, 2018

tonnes per hectare. Source: FAOSTAT, Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Maize (corn), yield, kg/ha (item 56, element 5412). Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	Countries	2018 tonnes per hectare	Change on 2017
1	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	27.84	-1.4%
2	Israel	22.64	-12.1%
3	United Arab Emirates	20.85	-32.3%
4	Kuwait	17.6	+143.9%
5	Tajikistan	14.89	+13.8%
6	Qatar	12.52	-1%
7	Chile	12.47	+11.1%
8	Spain	11.92	+5.3%
9	United States	11.07	-0.1%
10	New Zealand	11.07	+10.1%
11	Greece	10.63	-8.3%
12	Italy	10.49	+11.9%
13	Uzbekistan	10.38	-0.3%
14	Austria	10.15	+2.4%
15	Switzerland	9.78	-8.6%
16	Canada	9.7	-3.2%
17	Türkiye	9.64	+4.2%
18	Slovenia	9.45	+33%
19	New Caledonia Estimated	9.18	+1.9%
20	Croatia	9.12	+44.6%
21	France	8.82	-12.9%
22	Oman	8.6	+24.2%
23	Portugal	8.56	-0.6%
24	Hungary	8.45	+23.9%
25	Slovakia	8.37	+47.4%
26	Bangladesh	8.21	+5.8%
27	Germany	8.14	-22.7%
28	Bulgaria	7.92	+23.1%
29	Bahamas Estimated	7.86	+0.5%
30	Ukraine	7.84	+42.5%
31	Azerbaijan	7.82	+18.3%
32	Serbia	7.72	+92.7%
33	Romania	7.64	+28.1%
34	Egypt	7.52	-3.5%
35	Australia	7.34	+14%
36	Albania	7.23	+10.1%
37	Belgium	6.97	-43.8%
38	Iran	6.69	0%
39	Bosnia and Herzegovina	6.64	+81.8%
40	Kyrgyzstan	6.59	+2.3%
41	Lithuania	6.54	+14%
42	Belarus	6.52	+22.4%
43	Netherlands	6.49	-51.8%
44	Saudi Arabia	6.23	-2.7%
45	China	6.1	-0.1%
46	Argentina	6.09	-19.6%
47	Mauritius	6.05	-19.3%
48	Taiwan	6.04	-1%
49	Czechia	5.98	-12.6%
50	Laos	5.93	+3%
51	Cambodia	5.92	+9%
52	Poland	5.88	-17.9%
53	Kazakhstan	5.74	+0.1%
54	Denmark	5.63	-26.2%
55	Armenia	5.51	+12.4%
56	Papua New Guinea Estimated	5.49	-2.3%
57	Indonesia Estimated	5.31	+0.2%
58	North Macedonia	5.15	+33.9%
59	Luxembourg	5.11	-40.5%
60	Brazil	5.11	-9.1%
61	South Korea	5.04	+4.7%
62	Puerto Rico	5	+24%
63	Paraguay	5	-8.9%
64	South Africa	4.98	-15.1%
65	Pakistan	4.97	+5.3%
66	Russia	4.81	-1.7%
67	Vietnam	4.72	+1.5%
68	Thailand	4.6	-0.1%
69	Iraq	4.5	+26.3%
70	Algeria	4.44	+241.5%
71	Uruguay	4.34	-39.2%
72	Montenegro	4.25	+0.7%
73	Moldova	4.24	+14.7%
74	Maldives Estimated	4.23	+3.5%
75	Belize	4.21	-7.7%
76	Sweden	4.14	n/a
77	Myanmar	3.82	+0.2%
78	Mexico	3.81	+0.7%
79	Sri Lanka	3.81	+2.2%
80	Syria	3.73	+11%
81	North Korea	3.69	-14.4%
82	Ecuador	3.62	-9.4%
83	Bhutan	3.52	+0.2%
84	Colombia	3.5	-0%
85	Peru	3.44	+0.7%
86	Ethiopia	3.34	+0.8%
87	Turkmenistan	3.15	-11.7%
88	Philippines	3.09	-0.2%
89	India	3.02	+2.9%
90	Fiji	3.01	+0.2%
91	Lebanon	3	-33.5%
92	Venezuela	2.89	-6.8%
93	Mali	2.88	-1.3%
94	Barbados Estimated	2.84	+0.7%
95	Bolivia	2.73	+21.4%
96	Nepal	2.72	+6.5%
97	Georgia	2.72	+50%
98	Japan Estimated	2.67	-0.8%
99	El Salvador	2.53	-20.6%
100	Suriname	2.5	+4.7%
101	Cuba	2.39	+0.9%
102	Panama	2.38	+9.3%
103	Namibia	2.35	-0%
104	Libya	2.28	+4.3%
105	Ghana	2.26	+12.3%
106	Antigua and Barbuda Estimated	2.23	+10%
107	Zambia	2.21	-12.3%
108	Costa Rica	2.18	+44.1%
109	Guatemala Estimated	2.15	0%
110	Timor-Leste Estimated	2.14	-1.1%
111	Sierra Leone	2.14	+0.5%
112	Côte d’Ivoire Estimated	2.09	+0.9%
113	São Tomé and Príncipe Estimated	2	0%
114	Djibouti Estimated	2	-0%
115	Senegal	1.94	+9.3%
116	Cameroon	1.85	+0.3%
117	Honduras Estimated	1.82	-0.9%
118	Comoros Estimated	1.8	-1.5%
119	Tanzania	1.77	+1.1%
120	Kenya	1.77	+15.6%
121	Madagascar Estimated	1.75	+0.6%
122	Dominican Republic	1.71	-0.2%
123	Nigeria	1.67	+0.5%
124	Burkina Faso	1.67	+4%
125	Dominica Estimated	1.61	+0.5%
126	Malawi	1.6	-20.3%
127	Gabon Estimated	1.56	-0.1%
128	Burundi	1.53	+17.8%
129	Sudan	1.5	+12.5%
130	Afghanistan	1.47	+13.7%
131	Micronesia Estimated	1.47	+0.7%
132	Niger	1.46	+2.6%
133	Rwanda	1.43	+3.8%
134	Nicaragua	1.39	+8.7%
135	Uganda	1.39	-23.8%
136	Guyana Estimated	1.36	-0.3%
137	Zimbabwe	1.35	-3.1%
138	Guinea	1.34	-0.8%
139	Benin	1.3	-1.3%
140	Chad	1.28	+8.4%
141	Eswatini Estimated	1.27	+2.4%
142	Togo	1.24	+0.7%
143	Jamaica	1.15	-1.2%
144	Yemen	1.11	+0.2%
145	Somalia	1.1	+42.4%
146	Angola	1.05	+17.3%
147	Eritrea	1	0%
147	Guinea-Bissau	1	0%
149	Grenada Estimated	1	-0.1%
150	Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.96	+3.4%
151	Mozambique	0.87	+17.8%
152	Lesotho	0.87	-16.6%
153	South Sudan	0.85	-4%
154	Central African Republic	0.8	0%
155	Morocco	0.8	-14.7%
156	Democratic Republic of the Congo Estimated	0.77	-0.2%
157	Mauritania	0.71	-29.4%
158	Vanuatu Estimated	0.61	+1%
159	Haiti	0.58	-26.4%
160	Gambia Estimated	0.52	-15.7%
161	Botswana	0.32	+33.8%
162	Cape Verde	0.02	+22,600%

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Harvested production of maize (corn) for grain per hectare of area harvested, in tonnes per hectare. FAOSTAT publishes it in kilograms per hectare; Invokely divides by 1,000.

Area harvested, not area sown, so crop failures lower the area as well as the output. FAO fills gaps in national reporting with its own estimates and imputations, which are marked as estimated, and revises past years when countries send new figures.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the countries are compared on one definition. 8 countries with data in other periods have no value for 2018 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

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FAO. 2025. FAOSTAT: Production: Crops and livestock products (QCL): Maize (corn), yield, kg/ha (item 56, element 5412). Accessed on 2026-10-12. https://bulks-faostat.fao.org/production/Production_Crops_Livestock_E_All_Data_%28Normalized%29.zip Licence: CC-BY-4.0. FAO does not endorse Invokely or this use of the data.

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Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, with 27.84 tonnes per hectare in 2018, according to Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Cape Verde, with 0.02 tonnes per hectare in 2018.

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